Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that destroyed a barn on Thursday afternoon on Harvey Road in Waterloo Township.

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Brian Koch was heading to his daughter's Waterloo Township farm Thursday where a barn-destroying fire was raging when he had a heart attack and crashed his vehicle, MLive reports.

The 55-year-old Chelsea man later died.

Koch was less than four miles from the fire, reported about 12:30 p.m. at 14640 Harvey Road in Waterloo Township, according to MLive. A fire truck en route to the fire was diverted to the accident at Cavanaugh Lake and Pierce roads just west of Chelsea in Sylvan Township.